A group of activists in the Catskills are attempting to have the sale of Confederate flags banned from the Delaware County Fair, and are using the anti-racist sentiment generated by violent protesting in Charlottesville, Va., as a springboard.

Co-organizer Christina Hunt Wood gathered protesters near the fairgrounds in Walton, NY, where she said the presence of the flag at the fair sends a message to people of color that they are not welcome, according to The Reporter.

She said that it is associated with "the same neo-nazis and klansmen" responsible for the violence in Charlottsville this weekend, during which one counter protester was killed by a car that drove into a crowd.

The group, called "Fair for All," presented a letter to fair directors signed by 570 people that asked for the flag to be removed from the fair. They argued that it was also antithetical to the memory of Delaware County Civil War veterans who fought against the Confederacy to end slavery.

They also pointed out that the New York State Fair in Syracuse, and several other county fairs, have already banned the sale of the flag.

The group first gathered outside the fairgrounds near a ticket booth, but fair director Ed Rossley quickly intervened with police and had them removed. A press release from the group says that Rossley asked police to make arrests, but none were made.

The group relocated to a new location, and fair directors declined to comment on the issue at the time of the protest.

The same group unsuccessfully tried to have the flag banned in 2015, after nine African-American people were killed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., the Watershed Post reported.

Other speakers at the press conference included members of the local NAACP chapter, a 4-H leader and a pastor from the United Ministry of Delhi.